SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two tech giants — top internet portal operator Naver Corp. and gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. — have accelerated their push into the global K-pop fan community with their platforms, industry officials said Saturday. On Wednesday, Naver announced that it will join hands with Big Hit Entertainment, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean online gaming giant NCSOFT Corp. said Thursday that it will launch its K-pop fan platform globally next week. The platform, named Universe, will be simultaneously available on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS devices on Jan. 28, NCSOFT said. Universe allows users to enjoy different K-pop content on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp. said Tuesday it has joined hands with the country’s entertainment giant CJ ENM to make further inroads into the burgeoning platform business. Under a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the two will establish a joint venture in the content and digital platform sectors [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will land in Japan and Taiwan during the first quarter of this year, South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp. said Monday. The mobile version of the mega-hit game Lineage 2 will be simultaneously available on Google’s Android and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop acts IZ*ONE and Monsta X are set to join game developer NCsoft’s new fan platform aiming for launch early next year, the company said Friday. The platform, named Universe, will allow K-pop fans around the world to join fan communities and enjoy original content, according to KLAP, an [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A subsidiary of South Korean online game developer NCSOFT Corp. on Wednesday disclosed three highly anticipated mobile games under development. Ntreev Soft Co. is currently developing the three games — Trickster M, Pangya M and Pro Baseball H3. “Trickster M and Pangya M are scheduled to be rolled out [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s hottest mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) “Lineage M” marked its third anniversary on Wednesday. It was developed by the nation’s leading online game developer and publisher NCSOFT Corp. “Lineage M” was created in June 2017 as a mobile version of the PC game Lineage, which [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by South Korean online game maker NCSOFT Corp., was the highest grossing app on the Google Play Store during the first quarter of the year, industry data showed Monday. The mobile version of the mega-hit game “Lineage 2″ was [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Lineage 2M, a new mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by online game maker NCSOFT Corp., was launched in South Korea on Wednesday. The new mobile version of mega-hit game Lineage II was released at 12:00 a.m. on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS devices, becoming the top-grossing app [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest game publisher NCSOFT Corp. said Friday that the new version of its mobile mega-hit game “Lineage M” will overcome the limitations of its platform. The so-called master server will be adopted for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) starting for the first time in March [...]